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kadu , 2 months ago to technology in Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools

They’re not exactly “being blocked” but rather the legacy ability to tell explorer.exe to load the older style Taskbar, which those apps load then modify, is going away. I’m not defending this nor do I like it, but it would be like saying some Linux distro is BLOCKING customization because some legacy app dependent on Xorg will not work after they switch to Wayland.

kadu , 2 months ago to retrogaming in On Computer Games [free retro magazine]

I really miss magazines. I know print media is pretty much not viable anymore… But is there somebody making digital gaming magazines still? I don’t mean having a website and calling your homepage a magazine, but those nice full page artworks, people paid to write content without the pressure of SEO, etc.

I’d pay for that.

kadu , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to games in Apple will start allowing emulators on the iOS App Store

but requires you to be connected to the same network as a computer running altstore.

So you mean iOS doesn’t natively support JIT for App Store apps and requires hacky workarounds?

kadu , 2 months ago to games in Apple will start allowing emulators on the iOS App Store

Do we know if these emulators will support JIT? JIT has always been prohibited on iOS (which is why there are no browsers other than Safari - Firefox and Chrome on iOS are just a Safari WebView plus a crappy interface on top).

Even when sideloading emulators, you only get JIT by paying for a special developer license or using exploits on very specific iOS versions.

Without JIT, sure, go nuts emulating the NES… But forget about anything more demanding than a GameCube, or using this to run a VM or something.

kadu , 2 months ago to technology in Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up.

So no, if this law came into effect, people would just stop using AI. And imo, they probably should stop for cases like this unless it has direct human oversight of everything coming out of it.

Then you and I agree. If AI can be advertised as a source of information but at the same time can’t provide safeguarded information, then there should not be commercial AI. Build tools to help video editing, remove backgrounds from photos, go nuts, but do not position yourself as a source of information.

Though if fixing AI is at all possible, even if we predict it will only happen after decades of technology improvements, it for sure won’t happen if we are complacent and do not add such legislative restrictions.

kadu , 2 months ago to linux in Ubuntu 24.04 Improves Power Efficiency on Laptops - OMG! Ubuntu

Not sure why your comment was downvoted, you’re actually correct, Windows is got better battery life. The only reason I’m not running it on this MacBook is an unpatched bug in the Intel HD Graphics driver that prevents it from working with newer Windows versions on MacBooks with this specific display adapter.

kadu , 2 months ago to technology in Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up.

I wonder how legislation is going to evolve to handle AI. Brazilian law would punish a newspaper or social media platform claiming that Iran just attacked Israel - this is dangerous information that could affect somebody’s life.

If it were up to me, if your AI hallucinated some dangerous information and provided it to users, you’re personally responsible. I bet if such a law existed in less than a month all those AI developers would very quickly abandon the “oh no you see it’s impossible to completely avoid hallucinations for you see the math is just too complex tee hee” and would actually fix this.

kadu , 2 months ago to linux in Ubuntu 24.04 Improves Power Efficiency on Laptops - OMG! Ubuntu

Still far from ideal, though. My 2017 MacBook Air with a severely degraded battery lasts 4 hours on macOS, but only 2.5h on Ubuntu 24.04 using the power saving profile - and that’s with less intensive usage, as macOS keeps rendering gaussian blurs everywhere and launchpad and spotlight and all those annoying services.

kadu , 2 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows

First thing I do when I open Firefox or Chrome for the first time is go into settings and disable the ability for websites to request notifications permissions

kadu , 2 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows

Sumatra is fantastic for reading PDFs, but it can’t edit them. In that case I recommend PDF Gear.

kadu , 2 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows

I don’t touch Adobe software. Not only due to the abusive subscription, but even the pirated versions will install Creative Cloud and a thousand supporting applications that permanently modify your Windows shell, explorer, scheduled tasks and many more system features.

kadu , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Does ubuntu still install snaps when you use apt?

For a few packages, yes. You can change this behavior, but there’s no GUI for it.

kadu , 2 months ago to gaming in The New York Times Is More Gaming Company Than Newspaper – Data shows most NYT subscribers are playing games, not reading the news

“Playing card” company is a bit of an understatement. Nintendo was a grey market entertainment company - playing cards were banned in Japan, and a workaround was designing the cards with those beautiful drawings instead of suits. This is also why card companies were deeply associated with the Yakuza.

Nintendo also operated casinos and love hotels, with prostitutes. In fact, they did a lot of weird maneuvering during the launch of the Famicom to tip off the Yakuza, who wanted to keep their strong ties and get early access to the hardware.

There’s a whole book about how Nintendo and Sega had some crazy connections with the Yakuza and those shaped several projects in these companies.

kadu , 2 months ago to gaming in Classic Microsoft

There’s also the fact that Bedrock patches bugs that the Java community freaks out about patching. Several chunk update glitches and undesirable redstone behavior are exploited by the Java players, and they go nuts over the idea of fixing the issues. Bedrock, being a new codebase, obviously didn’t port over old crusty bugs and therefore doesn’t have to carry over those expectations.

kadu , 2 months ago to youshouldknow in YSK if you've built a computer and it won't boot, sometimes the issue can be resolved by taking the memory out and putting it back.

Anything from 30 seconds to 10 minutes, depending on your specific combination of RAM, CPU and chipset.